The Guardian:
Classes on goodies and baddies, endless rows about jokes in poor taste . . . is an increasingly cautious BBC suffocating new comedy and drama? Mark Lawson on the climate of fear at Broadcasting HouseOn Saturday, it will be on (Read More)
New York Times:
Senator Charles E. Grassley asked universities what they are doing about professors who put their names on others’ articles, and how that is different from plagiarism.
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From arbitrary card pricing to subjective card grading, sub-par editorial, manufacturer collusion, glorified product reviews and near plagiarism, this blatant disregard for the collector's best intrests in the name of the alm (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The literary lynch mob is in a blind fury over Andrew Motion's 'found poem' – but it isn't plagiarismThere is no easier way of whipping up a literary lynch mob than shouting: "Plagiarism!" Andrew Motion is currently under fir (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Don't believe everything you read about genes and disease in prestigious journals like Science and Nature, say Marcus R Munafò and Jonathan Flint. A lot of it is simply wrongDuring the second world war, the physicist Enrico F (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Military historian claiming that 'found' poem published in the Guardian makes unfair use of his work has 'got the wrong end of the stick', says former poet laureateThe military historian who accused Andrew Motion of plagiaris (Read More)
The Guardian:
Hefce defends universities against claims of dumbing down and plagiarism – but the critics remain ruffledOne blazing hot June day last year, Geoffrey Alderman stepped up to a podium, lit a touchpaper and watched it ignite.Ald (Read More)
USATODAY.com - On Deadline:
A program used to detect plagiarism indicates that William Shakespeare was at least the co-author of an unattributed play about Edward III, The Times of London reports.Sir Brian Vickers, an authority on Shakespeare at the Ins (Read More)
Information Literacy Weblog:
The Plagiarism Advice Agency in the UK is at http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/ They provide advice, training and resources for those in the education sector, schools as well as further and higher education. The focus has been (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
If we're looking for suspects in the death of cult, Quentin Tarantino has to be up there. He has previous – he didn't even pay his late fees at Amsterdam's famous cult video shopA week ago I was in Amsterdam, a charming city (Read More)
New York Times:
When it is not being used to catch cheating college students, a computer program used to detect plagiarism may have helped show that Shakespeare was an author of an unattributed play about Edward III.
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The Guardian:
The 20-year trend of girls beating boys in exams could soon be reversed after a move to drop coursework in maths GCSEs allowed boys to leapfrog their female classmates' results in just one year.Coursework will be scrapped fro (Read More)
The Guardian:
Reducing coursework for the maths GCSE helped boys outperform girls for the first time in a decadeBoys have leapfrogged over girls in maths GCSE results, bagging more of the top grades for the first time since 1997 after the (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It looks like the battle between StudiVZ and Facebook in Germany is reaching it’s end. Facebook is now officially Germany’s biggest social network. The latest numbers from analysts Nielsen show that the world market leader in (Read More)
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books:
There’s a great deal of “If you liked…” recommendations for romance readers. And most of the time those recommendations are much appreciated - especially when they come from the online community, which is hellaciously well-re (Read More)
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Jimmy Kimmel Live Sings "I'm F*cking Ben Afflec", Matt Damon, Sarah Silverman, Robin Williams, Harrison Ford, Lance Bass, Good Charlotte, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt and an all-star cast in response to Sarah Silverman I'm F*ckin (Read More)